On a Sidenote: I got a raise! A real one. My boss went to bat for me to get a better raise when the starting wage went up $3 and mine only went up 58¢ for the same adjustment. For the 58¢ raise, I literally just calculated how much it would work out to per pay period and rolled it into improving my health coverage, and adding in optical since I probably have to get a cataract dealt with next year, and let's be honest, I'm getting older. So she went to bat for me got me another $2. I didn't quite make it to $3 starters got, but I'm satisfied with that. YAY! I paid off one of my bills forever last month, so I think I'll probably take some of that raise and just have it automatically transfer into savings each pay period. Then I think I'll start replacing the rest of my windows one by one, starting with
@Marynachaotica's bedroom window which is the next worst in the house after the four we already replaced (which I just paid off) So that's a thing I can do now that I couldn't before.
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